They said it couldn’t be done. They said I was an idiot for even thinking about it. Who would want to buy a word?
To them I say that in the last three days, I have sold 337 words/phrases/pages. That’s right, 150 pages sold on Tuesday, 109 pages sold on Wednesday, and on Thursday, 78 pages sold bringing the three day count to 337.
No one in the history of the world has ever sold a language before. I am the first.
I’m going to sell the entire language.
I’m going to push huge, and sell other languages too. French words, Italian words, its all going to be on the Million Dollar Wiki. People have already bought words in Spanish, Dutch, Italian, and more. Half the time I need to translate the words to make sure I’m not selling anything offensive or pornographic.
Stay tuned folks, this is getting huge. If you’re thinking about getting a page, now is the time to do it. In two short months my guess is that no good words will be left. Just WAIT untill you see the publicity coming out soon. Something big is in the works.
Finally, as I close in on 1000 pages sold, I realize that this is going to be bigger and better than the Million Dollar Homepage ever was. I’m easily going to sell more than 10,000 pages, and once pages open up for resale, people’s jaws are going to drop when they see how much my pages are reselling for. Everyone that got in on the ground floor sure are going to be happy campers!
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Just to clarify:
Are you going to keep all foreign words in this wiki or are you going to buy domain names in other languages?
Does this mean you are going beyond your 10,000 count or are you going to keep demand high by keeping the supply at 10,000?
I can’t wait to see what’s up next. I remember you had said a big name blogger was going to mention the wiki and it turned out to be ShoeMoney!
Amazing. The sky is the limit.
I have been impressed how things have taken off for you. I thought it was stalling a bit but seems to be on the march again.
Keep it up and get that PR higher so we can all benefit from the site
Working Nomad.
Great day when you reach 10,000 mark
what can I say, I’m glad I was one of the first to buy a page and to believe this is a great idea. On the last days, it is amazing the boost that the pages had.
Sounds great! I do think that if there were some way to keep the languages a little separate (as Wikipedia does) it would be a lot stronger. I worry a bit that a hodge podge of language words mixed together would make the “Index” really hard to use and might also water down the “Random” feature as well.
If you could select a language that would really be great and also probably also encourage foreign language sales as they wouldn’t get lost in the sea of English ones.
That is great Graham congratulations. Did you received my email about being an affiliate and get featured?
Hey Blog advertising, nice page that you have wish to learn more how make better pages it will be great if Graham accepts html or expand the tutorial on how to use the wiki language.
I see no value in stopping at 10,000 - the bigger the community, the more value each page should have. Also, that means more earnings for Graham to improve the quality of service
I think the reverse would be true. Graham would be the only one making the money and soon, customers will not even see the value in buying pages. Our pages will devalue because the supply is high. Look at all the make money online page variants. They are in each others turf competing for traffic.
I actually do not have any plans at stopping at 10,000. I too believe that it makes the site more valuable. The more pages people own, the more it becomes a resource, the more people visit the site every day, the more searched the keywords get. Traffic is what makes the pages valuable, and the supply is very limited for niches as it is.
Anyway, the words in other languages will be on this site, not on other domains. A number of people have contacted me to swing deals setting up wikis in other languages, and I have declined because I am going to have multiple languages on this site.
Hussam — Thanks for the complement! BTW, to clarify, you can use HTML as long as you use an iframe to “include” it into your page from a separate domain. That’s how I did mine — one giant iframe.
Graham — thanks for the clarification! Do you have any plans to “separate” the languages on the website to make it easier for people to browse their specific language?
Separating by language is is one possibility, but people seem to be buying foreign words regardless so I’m just going to see how this plays out for now.
You have to seperate the languages, they don’t mesh. What would the main page look like? I would be very turned off if I went to a site like digg.com, and only a 5th of the site was in english. There needs to be some ideas of how to manage the languages.
Hmm. It’s a tough call. I agree that sustained traffic without the John Chow/ShoeMoney effect is key but searching the MDW as a resource has always been my concern as there is the issue of optimization.
In any event, just like the domain name boom of the 90s, it’s still better to get the good keywords first due to turf crowding.
Graham anything you need help in spanish, brazilian and arabic let me know.
Brazilian=Portuguese…
I can help on Portuguese, in fact some friends are already buying Portuguese keywords.
As I see it now, this site is set up as an english language site only - it’s in english, it doesn’t offer translation services, and it doesn’t cater to other languages - so I would say that words purchased in foreign languages are on their own as far as traffic is concerned - they really aren’t in an area that suggests they will succeed with spanish, portugese, or arabic, and I imagine a majority of the visitors will ignore them completely. It’s up to Graham if he wants to change something about this.
Why not the million dollar soul page. Where one million people sell their souls.
I also feel like English is the best choice for wiki profile sites… but who knows, maybe I’ll try a site in German and see if I can drive some traffic there.
I definitely think it’s a good idea to expand to different languages, however, I’m not sure how you’d execute Asian languages like Chinese. Without plugins, it’ll look weird since the characters will seem like gibberish.
Yeah, true - and there are so many folks living there, maybe you should launch a dedicated Asian or Chinese mdw…
I think that first the success of the first MDW is vital and then expand from there. Remember we are 10% of the way to 10,000
And the effect is increasing, which means the second 1k pages will sell a lot faster than the first ones.
Perhaps he could somehow “franchise” the MDW for different languages?